The Cold War

Created after WW2 to promote peace and humanitarian aid for the countries of the world

He disobeyed his orders during the Korean war and was fired

Fidel Castro brought panic to America by leading a communist revolution in which country

This Vietnam battle caught America off guard, and it was a huge win for the communists in 1968

This president is credited with desegregating the military during the Korean War

Wanted to unite all of Vietnam as a single Communist nation

The Truman Doctrine provided money to which two countries in order to keep them from communism?

Where Truman and Stalin met for the first time to determine the fate of post war Germany

An attack on one member nation is the quivalent to an attack on all member nations

In the Space Race, the Soviets beat America to____ but the USA beat the USSR to _____.

Which of these countries is proof that containment worked?

He was accused of sharing nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union

An economic system which allows for private ownership of businesses and competition.

Here, the North Vietnamese blew up the USS Maddox off the coast of Vietnam

Massive dropping of food and supplies to keep Berlin afloat

In the entire history of the Cold War, the closest the USA and the USSR ever got to WW3 was..

Fought in the early 1950s as the first armed struggle of the cold war

Communist leader of China. He led the revolutio to turn China communist after WW2

The U-2 incident deepened tension between the USA and the USSR. This was created because

Americas Cold War policy to stop the spread of communism

American sponsored program to aid Eurpoean countries economically after WW2

When the Soviet Union cut off all highways, railroads, and water routes going into West Berlin

The _____Theory proposed that if Vietnam fell to the communists then all of SE Asia would fall

Soviet led alliance of Eastern European countries. It was meant to be the USSR's answer to NATO

The Vietcong was a ________________ of South Vietnamese communists.

This 1950's senator was known for his witch hunt of communists in the govt.

Confrontation and competition between the USA and the Soviet Union from 1946-1991

The Bay of Pigs operation was ordered by President....

Economic system of the SU, where the government owns all businesses and industry

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave war powers to...

Phase coined by Winston Churchill referring to the divide between Eastern and Western Europe

The Korean War ended in a stalemate along